The Avengers/Catalogs
Series 1 (1961)
Unless noted in the table below, all episodes in this series featured both Dr. David Keel and John Steed.
Episode # | Original Air Date (UK) | Episode Title | Guest cast | Episode Status |
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1-01 | 7 January 1961 | Hot Snow | Catherine Woodville, Philip Stone, Robert James, Godfrey Quigley, Moira Redmond, Murray Melvin | Only Act 1 (20 minutes) Intact |
1-02 | 14 January 1961 | Brought to Book | Philip Stone, Robert James, Godfrey Quigley, Neil McCarthy, Charles Morgan, Michael Collins, Clifford Elkin | Missing |
1-03 | 21 January 1961 | Square Root of Evil | Alex Scott, Michael Robbins, George Murcell, Heron Carvic | Broadcast live, never filmed |
1-04 | 28 January 1961 | Nightmare | Helen Lindsay | Missing |
1-05 | 4 February 1961 | Crescent Moon | Roger Delgado, Patience Collier, Eric Thompson | Broadcast live, never filmed |
1-06 | 11 February 1961 | Girl on the Trapeze (Keel only) | Kenneth J. Warren, Edwin Richfield, Ivor Salter | Fully Intact |
1-07 | 18 February 1961 | Diamond Cut Diamond | Sandra Dorne | Broadcast live, never filmed |
1-08 | 24 February 1961 | The Radioactive Man | George Pravda, Gerald Sim, Christine Pollon | Broadcast live, never filmed |
1-09 | 4 March 1961 | Ashes of Roses | Mark Eden | Broadcast live, never filmed |
1-10 | 18 March 1961 | Hunt the Man Down | Melissa Stribling, Maurice Good | Missing |
1-11 | 1 April 1961 | Please Don't Feed the Animals | Tenniel Evans | Missing |
1-12 | 15 April 1961 | Dance with Death | Caroline Blakiston, Angela Douglas, Geoffrey Palmer | Missing |
1-13 | 29 April 1961 | One for the Mortuary | Frank Gatliff, Dennis Edwards | Missing |
1-14 | 13 May 1961 | The Springers | Brian Murphy, Donald Morley, David Webb | Missing |
1-15 | 27 May 1961 | The Frighteners | Willoughby Goddard, Stratford Johns, Doris Hare, Neil Wilson, Philip Locke, Godfrey James, Eric Elliott | Fully Intact |
1-16 | 10 June 1961 | The Yellow Needle | Margaret Whiting, Wolfe Morris, Eric Dodson | Missing |
1-17 | 24 June 1961 | Death on the Slipway | Nyree Dawn Porter, Peter Arne, Frank Thornton, Hamilton Dyce, Gary Watson, Tom Adams | Missing |
1-18 | 8 July 1961 | Double Danger | Charles Hodgson, Ron Pember | Missing |
1-19 | 22 July 1961 | Toy Trap | Tony Van Bridge, Brian Jackson, Brandon Brady, Anne Tirard, Mitzi Rogers | Missing |
1-20 | 5 August 1961 | The Tunnel of Fear | Murray Hayne, Morris Perry | Missing |
1-21 | 19 August 1961 | The Far Distant Dead (Keel only) | Katharine Blake, Tom Adams, Reed De Rouen, Francis de Wolff | Missing |
1-22 | 2 September 1961 | Kill the King | Burt Kwouk, Peter Barkworth, Moira Redmond, Patrick Allen, Andy Ho | Missing |
1-23 | 9 December 1961 | Dead of Winter | John Woodvine, Neil Hallett | Missing |
1-24 | 16 December 1961 | The Deadly Air | John Stratton, Allan Cuthbertson, Ann Bell, Geoffrey Bayldon, Michael Hawkins, Keith Anderson | Missing |
1-25 | 23 December 1961 | A Change of Bait | John Bailey, Tim Barrett | Missing |
1-26 | 30 December 1961 | Dragonsfield (Steed only) | Sylva Langova, Alfred Burke, Barbara Shelley, Ronald Leigh-Hunt, Michael Robbins, Eric Dodson, Keith Barron, Morris Perry, Steven Scott | Missing |
Series 2 (1962-1963)
Those episodes featuring either Dr. Martin King or Venus Smith are noted in the table, all other episodes feature Cathy Gale.
NOTE: The episode Death of a Great Dane was later re-made during series 5 as The £50,000 Breakfast.
Series 3 (1963-1964)
NOTE: The episode 'Don't Look Behind You' was later re-made during series 5 as The Joker, The Charmers was remade for the same series as The Correct Way to Kill and Dressed to Kill was in large part remade in again the same series, as The Superlative Seven.
Series 4 (1965-1966)
Two versions of The Town of No Return and The Murder Market were produced, one featuring Elizabeth Shepherd as Emma Peel and a remake after the role was recast with Diana Rigg. The Shepherd versions was never televised and is believed to be lost. Canal+ claimed they had the original versions, then later retracted this claim.
For American broadcast, all episodes of the 1965-1966 series included a specially shot prologue preceding the main credits, showing Steed and Peel walking across a giant chessboard while a narrator introduces the characters and the concept of the series.
The Strange Case of the Missing Corpse was filmed on the set of Honey for the Prince and was as Brian Clemens originally wrote it to be tagged on to the end of the final b/w episode transmitted in America advertising the upcoming colour episodes, it was also cut down into a trailer for the colour episodes coming soon to ABC Network in America. It was never meant to be screened in any other country. (just like the prologue to the b/w Rigg episodes.) There is a myth that it was to have originally been a twenty-minute mini-episode, the version presently available on video is three minutes long.
Series 5 (1967)
The Fear Merchants was the first episode of the Avengers to be produced in colour.